Dress or corset spring.



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UNITED .STATES Patented April 5,

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DRESS on consi-:T SPRING.

SZEIIEIGIFICAEION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 756,596, dated April 5, 1904. Application filed l'uly 8, 1902. Serial No. 114,812. (No model.)

To LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH M. DHALE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress or Corset Spr1ngs,of which the following is a specir fication.

This invention consists of a wire braid or web and mountings therefor primarily devised as a convenient means to impart a pliable elastic ity to articles of ladies apparel and to certain parts of garments in general.

,The accompanying drawings, in which like `reference characters indicate like parts in the several figures, are integral herewith as a mediuln of illustration.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a plan and lan edge viewshowing a compressed or flattened form of my wire braid or tape adapted for use as a corset-stay and comprising end clipsor mountings, ,Figs 3 and 4 are similar views to Figs. l and 2 augmented by a more or less elongated eye inserted within each clip or end mounting. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 illustrate the development and formation of 4the clips shown in the preceding figures.

Fig. 8 is a plan of a laterally-hinged tubular form of the invention, showing also a modiiied form of clip. Figs. 9 and 10 are crosssections illustrating how this tubular form can be varied by the use of cores of different shapes.l Fig. 11 illustrates a link to be used in my invention for connecting iinished springs of either one of the forms shown herein. Fig. 12 is a side elevation illustrating the iiattened form of my wire-spring web mounted upon a spool or roller. Figs. 13, 14, 15 illustrate the development and formation of the clip shown in Figs. S and ll.

Since completing my invention, I have become aware that somewhatsimilar means for the same purpose have heretofore beendevised; but the fact that they have not received commercial approval speaks against their construction', convenience, and eiiiciency, all of which I believe Vmyinvention remedies. I shall therefore claim my device as an improvement on what already exists.

interstices at all.

Having tested various constructions, forms, and materials of wire tapes and other metallic webs, I find that the most efficient form is a more or less flattened tubular web of closely and diagonally plaited or woven fine semi-elastic and yieldably flexible wire; but since my invention will be used for various inner and of gentlemens Suspenders, for ladies belts,j

and in every case where a wire braid or wire stiifener can be utilized, my wire web therefore will be of different transverse forms and dimensions and of course will be composed of wire of various grades and degreesof iiexibility and elasticity.

The metallic web illustrated in`Figs. 1, 2, y

3, 4, 8, 11, and 15, necessarily for drawings, shows meshes or intervening-spaces between the wires; but it is intended for the most part that my wire web will be so .closely woven as to have scarcely any appreciable meshes or This compact interlacing of Wires of the proper grade, flexibility, and elasticity and on account of their capability to slide upon and against each other both transversely and longitudinally each upon each admits of sufficient lateral yieldability and elasticity for all purposes for which each particular grade of web is constructed.

' For the compact commercial packing and convenience in retailing of 'my tapes and braids except when madev in distinctlytubular form I provide them of indefinite lengths wound web-like upon spools or rollers, asii'llustrated byFig. l2; but.Whenitheformtad comparative rigidity demand it I furnislithem in sections'oftproper 'lengths and iiormae tiOnSU-iljl lnl KA f l1 trated in all figures of the drawings.- These mountings are seen in the drawings as hook or eyelet tips and are therein marked C C2.. .Although I have shown them only as tips, yet it is to be understood that I can dispose theml centrally or at intervals along any section of tape for the same securing or other purpose, in-which case, of course, the mounting would assume a correspondingly-modified form, but constructed on the same principle. As shown or suggested by the developments, Figs. 5, 6,

7 and 13, 14, 15, the mountings C C2 consist each of a centrally-shanked or somewhat T- shaped piece of thin iiexible metallic plate whose shank extends forward substantially in the plane of one side when the tip is completed and is rolled up or perforated to provide a retaining-aperture D D2, either lateral or transverse, and the cross portion of which is imv pressed with any desired number of center punchings E E2. These center 'punchings are for the convenience of rapidly mounting severed portions ofthe tape or web. 1

The development, formation, and application of the mountings C are indicated in Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive, thus: Fig. 5 illustrates the T-shaped plate (marked C) with its shank and center-punched cross-piece both outspread or flattened. Fig. 6 (and also Fig. 7) shows the shank of this plate curved, so as to form the laterally-openedpart D,.(seen in plan in Figs. 1 and 3 and in elevation in Figs. 2 and 4,) and Fig. 7 illustrates the sides of the centerv Ypunched cross portion turned up ready to clasp and compress upon a section of tape or web, as is seen in its completed aspect illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 12. In Figs. 3

' and 4 a more o r less elongated eye or bead F ornamentationgas well.

is inserted within the edgewise opening D of clip C, in which a slightly-depressed portion of the said eye or bead is more or less loosely held to allow the swiv'eling of these parts, and

thus adapt them to purposes of utility and of Thisclip C, with its inserted eyel F, is quite suitable and Will be claimed for both the webs A and A2, 'although to avoid burdening the drawings with an unnecessary number of figures I have shown on the web A2 only the modified form of mounting C2, to which a brief reference will now b made.

Figs. 13, 14, 15, and also Figs. 8' and 1l illustrate the above-mentioned modified clip or mounting C2, vof which Fig. 13 shows its full development. tothat illustrated for clip C by Figs, 5, 6, and 7. except that inthe one case we have the shank This development is identical of the clip rolled to form an endwise aperture D, while in the other the aperture D2 is transverse and punched through the shank. As in clip C, the aperture D2 of clip C2 is made to hold an inserted eye F2, preferably swiveling, as the eye F, for similar purposes. Fig. 14 shows' this vclip C2 with its edges turned up preparatory to applying it to the web A or A2. Figs. 8, l1, and '15 show its application.

The webs A A2 and, clips C C2 (including their inserted eyes or beads F F2) can be furnished in highly-polished and plated grades for exterior uses and for uses other than as garment-stiffeners. The clips when furnished separate are properly bent up' at the edges and previously center-punched, so that all the retail vender or user has to do is to hammer into place the turned-up portions, whereupon the center-punchings force asundcr the interlaced wires of the web andembed themselves l therebetween, lthus constituting an immovable mounting. As shown for C2 in Figs. 8, 11, 14, and 15, these clips may be fortified indelinitelyby flanges Grand ornamented. by other impressions. v

By preference the tubular web A2 is made of two thicknesses of the single web A, which are flexibly joined or hinged at the edges by any suitable means-for instance, by single wires A3 passing through meshes or loops laterally projecting from each thickness of the web. .This liexible joint admits of the insertion of differently-shaped cores, such as H H2, Figs. 9 and 10, thereby varying the form of the web transversely to suit any particular case.

For uniting mounted sections of my metallic web A or A2, I :furnish the link marked J in Fig. 11.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-.

1. In a device of the kind described, a severable wire braid,A and centrally punched mountings inclosing the opposite ends of the sections, the free ends of the mountings having a'ilangeforming an interlocking means for the contiguous sections.

2. The combination, in a device of the kind described, of a wire braid, an apertured mounting therefor, and an inserted eye swiv- IOO cling within the Ymountings aperture; substantially as set forth.'

3. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a wire braid, and a mounting therefor comprising a plateihaving flanges arranged to engage the braid and an outwardlyextended portion having a retaining-aperture,

of alink passing through said aperture and adapted to connect sections of saidbraid together; substantially as set forth.

4. In a device of thekind described, aseverable wire braid and' apertured mountings therefor, combined with swiveling eyes inserted in the rnountings apertures, and one In testimony whereofIhavesignedmyname or more links Joining one section of braid to to this specification in the presence of two sub- I0 another thlliough the eyes in said inountings; scribing witnesses. su stantia y as set forth.

5. A tubular Wire braid composed of sec- E M DHALE' [L S'] p tions flexibly joined together at their sides Witnesses: and inclosing a core of desired shape; sub- A. H. STE. MARIE,

stantially as and for the purpose set forth. CHAS. T. STANLEY. 

